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The glorious feast of the Gospel. Or, Christs gracious invitation and royal entertainment of…The glorious feast of the Gospel. Or, Christs gracious invitation and royall entertainment of…
The glorious feast of the Gospel. Or, Christs gracious invitation and royal entertainment of believers. Wherein amongst other things these comfortable doctrines are spiritually handled: Viz. 1. The marriage feast between Christ and his Church. 2. The veil of ignorance and unbelief removed. 3. Christs conquest over death. 4. The wiping away of tears from the faces of Gods people. 5. The taking away of their reproaches. 6. The precious promises of God, and their certain performance. 7. The divine authority of the holy scriptures. 8. The duty and comfort of waiting upon God. / Delivered in divers sermons upon Isai.25 chap.6,7,8,9 verses, by the late reverend, learned and faithful minister of the Gospel, Richard Sibbs, D.D. Master of Katharine-Hall in Cambridge, and preacher at Gray's-Inn, London. Perused by those that were instructed to revise his writings.The glorious feast of the Gospel. Or, Christs gracious invitation and royall entertainment of believers. Wherein amongst other things these comfortable doctrines are spiritually handled: Viz. 1. The marriage feast between Christ and his Church. 2. The vaile of ignorance and unbeliefe removed. 3. Christs conquest over death. 4. The wiping away of teares from the faces of Gods people. 5. The taking away of their reproaches. 6. The precious promises of God, and their certaine performance. 7. The divine authority of the holy scriptures. 8. The duty and comfort of waiting upon God. / Delivered in divers sermons upon Isai.25 chap.6,7,8,9 verses, by the late reverend, learned and faithfull minister of the Gospell, Richard Sibbs, D.D. Master of Katharine-Hall in Cambridge, and preacher at Grayes-Inne, London. Perused by those that were instructed to revise his writings.
London: printed for John Rothwell, 1650
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We shall say when we are there, Lo here is David, Abraham, Saint John, here the Martyrs. I but here is Christ, here is God, here is our Saviour the cause of all, and the seeing of him in them, that he will be glorious in his Saints, that maketh us rejoice. We shall see all our friends in heaven, there we shall see the excellency of the happiness of Christ his love, his grace, his mercy
We shall say when we are there, Loe here is David, Abraham, Saint John, here the Martyrs. I but here is Christ, here is God, here is our Saviour the cause of all, and the seeing of him in them, that he will be glorious in his Saints, that maketh us rejoyce. We shall see all our friends in heaven, there we shall see the excellency of the happinesse of Christ his love, his grace, his mercy
The words are expressed with a kind of glorying,1 Lo, this is our God. So that the joy of a Christian endeth in glory, and in the highest degree of glory. As you have it, Rom. 5. We glory also in tribulation, we glory in hope of glory, nay we glory in God as ours reconciled. And if we glory in him now as a God reconciled, what shall we do in heaven? Can a worlding glory in his riches, his greatness, his favour from such a man, as Haman did? And shall not a Christian glory in his God? and make his boast in his God?2 And therefore in this world we should learn to glory, before we come to that glory in heaven, specially when we be set upon by any thing that is apt to discourage us, glory then in our head; perhaps a Christian hath no wealth, no great rents to glory in, I but he hath a God to glory in, let him glory in him. The world may take all else from him, but not his God. As the Church in Cant. 5. The virgins put the Church to describe her beloved, what is thy beloved more then another beloved? My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest of 10000. Then she goeth on in particulars, my beloved is thus and thus, and if you would know what my beloved is, this is my beloved. So a Christian that hath a spirit